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Patented Mey 14, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

JAMES STUART VILKINS, JR., OF KENE, NEV HAMPSHIRE.

TOY RAILROAD-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,165, dated May 14, 1889. Application filed January 5, 1889. Serial No. 295,515. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.'

Beit known that I, JAMES STUART WIL- KINS, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Keene, in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Railroad-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in toy railroad-cars; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination'of devices that will .be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly'pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a toy freight-car embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is asectional view of the same, taken on the line x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detailed sectional view illustrating the construction of one of the trucks and taken on the line w w of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the saine, taken on the line z z of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an elevation of a toy passenger-car embodying my improvements. Fig. 6 is an end elevation of the saine. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective View of one of the hand-rails, showing the manner of securing the same to the platform on the end of the car.

The body A of the freight-car is made of two longitudinal sections of cast-iron, secured together in the manner described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 384,658, granted to me June 19, 1888. In the sides of the car are rectangular openings B, which form the doorways, and cast integrally with the said sides, at suitable distances beyond the doorways, are outwardly-projecting studs C and inwardly-proj ectin g bosses D. The studs C have notches E in their outer edges, and openings F are :made in the sides of the car on the outer sides of the studs E.

G represents a p air of longitudinal rods or wires arranged on each side of the car-body, the saine engaging the notches F of the studs E, being stretched between the said pairs of studs and arranged horizontally, as shown, and having their ends passed through the openings F and clinched or bent outward on the bosses C on the inner sides of the car, as shown in Fig. 2, the said wires or rods being thereby rigidly secured in place on the sides of the car.

I-l represents sliding doors, which are made of cast-iron and of suitable size to cover the doorways or openings B, and the same are adapted to slide between the rods G and the opposing sides of the car, and are provided at their upper corn ers with outwardly-projectin g lugs or studs I, that bear upon the upper wires or rods7 and have studs K near their lower edges at their centers which bear upon the lower wires or rods. The slide-doors are thus supported by the wires or rods, and are guided between the same and the sides of the car and adapted to move back and forth in a longitudinal direction, so as to cover or open the doorways B, as may be desired. A carbody thus constructed is a perfect representation of an ordinaryfreight-car, and formsa toy which will be highly appreciated by children on this account.

Castintegrally with each side or section of the car-body, near the ends thereof, are depending standards L, which align with each other in pairs transversely, when the sides or sections of the car-body are secured together.

I will now describe my im proved trucks for the toy car. M represents castings which represent the side beams, springs, and axle-boxes of a car-truck. The same are provided with central openings, N, which are pivoted onvare formed separately therefrom and driven onto the axles and secured thereto by frictional contact. The ends of the axles project beyond the outer sides of the wheels, and are journaled in recesses R S, made in the ends of the castings M, on the inner sides thereof.

The toy trucks thus constructed are perfect miniature fac-similes in outward appearance of the trucks employed on real cars. The castings M being centrally pivoted to the standards L form yielding bearings for the car-axles which serve to keep all the wheels of the truck in contact at all times with the floor or other surface on which the car may chance to be, and by reason of the axles having their ends journaled in recesses in the roo ends of the said pivoted castings M the wheels are adapted to turn when the car is moved, as will be readily understood.

The body of the passenger-car Z is formed of two longitudinal sections or castings, T, which are provided at their ends on a level with their lower sides with projecting sections U, that forni plat-forms at the ends of the car when the sides thereof are placed together, and east integrally with the said platforms are steps V, which closely imitate those of actual railway passenger-coaches.

lV represents hand-rails for the ends of the plat-forms, which are made of cast metal, or, if preferred, may be stamped from sheet or plate metal. The said hand-rails closely resemble those of passenger-coaches, and are :formed with levers X, which resemble the usual brake-levers, but are incapable of movement, beingI cast or stamped integrally with the hand-rails; also cast or formed integrally with the said hand-rails, at the centers of the same, are inwardlyextending plates Y, arranged at right angles thereto. The said plates bear under the ends of the car sections or castings, where they are concealed from sight when the car is in its normal position, and said plates are secured under the platforms of the car by means of rivets A ,which pass through aligned openings in said plates and said platforms, and have their ends swaged, as shown. By this construction the hand-rails are not only firmly secured to the platforms of the car, but also serve as means lfor securing the ends of the car sections or castings together and very greatly enhance the strength and durability Of the car.

The trucks employed on my improved passonger toy car are of the saine construction as those hereinbefore described in connection with. the toy freight-car.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. In a toy car, the sides or castings having the openin or doorways i3, the studs C, projecting from their outer sides, the bosses l), projecting from their inner sides, the wires or rods stretched on the studs and having their ends passed through openings in the sides of the car and clinched, and the sliding doors guided between said wires or rods and the sides of the cars, said doors having the studs bearing on the wires, substantially as de scribed.

i. In a toy car, the sides or castings having the openings or doorways B, and the studs (l, projecting from their outer sides, the wires or rods G, stretched between the studs across the upper and lower sides of the doorways, and having their ends passed through openings in the sides of the car and clinched, and the sliding doors made of cast metal and guided between said wires or rods and the sides of the car, said doors having the outwardly-proj ecting studs I l, east with them at their upper and lower sides and bearing on the upper and lower sides oi' the upper and lower wires, respectively, substantially as described.

In a toy ear, the combination, with the box or body having the depending standards L, of the castings M, centrally pivoted to said standards, and t-he ear-axles having thei r ends journaled in recesses on theinnersides ofthe castings at the ends thereof, substantially i described.

i. In a truck for toy ears, the castings M, representing the side springs, bars, and axleboxes of a car-truck, and the axles having their ends journaled in recesses on the inner sides of the castings M, at the ends thereof, substai'ltially as described.

5. The combination, in a toy car, of the body having the platforms at its ends, and the hand-rails having the plates Y secured under the car-platforms, substantially as described.

G. In a toy car, the body formed of longitudinal separable sections or castings havin the end platforms, in combination with thehandrailshaving the plates Y under said platform, said plates being riveted or secured to the platforms and, thereby securing the ends oli' the car-sections together,substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing' as my own I have hereto a'llixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

J. II. stoornis, l. J. l\=I.\nsnALr.. 

